This semester, many students from the UIUC Linguistics department presented their research at conferences near and far. Let’s take the time to congratulate each of them for their dedication to their work and their excellent representation of our department!
In September, Joshua Dees presented the poster “A structural analysis of Tense in Dholuo” at the 16th conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis(SinFonIJA). This formal linguistics conference was held in Brno (Czech Republic), at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.
In October, Mingyue Huo gave a talk on “Constructing a Phonetically-Balanced Low-Predictable Speech Corpus for Mandarin Chinese” at the 28th Midcontinental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon) at Purdue University. This conference is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States.
Additionally, Allison Casar presented her poster “Slur reclamation and metalinguistic discourse among LGBTQ speakers” at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV). This long-standing conference on sociolinguistic variation was held at Queens College, CUNY, New York.
In November, two students presented at the 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-48), an internationally recognized conference focusing on language acquisition and development, language disorders, bilingualism, and literacy development.
Amy Atiles presented her poster “Antecedent preferences at the syntax-semantics and syntax-discourse interfaces: Testing the Interface Hypothesis with L1-Japanese L2-English speakers”.
Additionally Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, along with her advisor Dr. Silvina Montrul, presented their talk “How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from Turkish-American returnees.”
At the 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Linguistics PhD students Joshua Dees and Anna Romaniuk presented their work with Katie VanDyne of the Spanish and Portuguese Department: “For better or for worse: An analysis of allomorphic variation in Polish anticausative verbs.” WECOL is an international conference on theoretical and descriptive linguistics and took place this year at California State University in Fresno.
Britni Moore presented her work “The Room of Becoming: Where Recruits Learn to Be Cops” in a panel called Pedagogies of Oppression: Violent Imaginaries and Racialized Visions in Police Training Worlds at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). This major conference focusing on all areas of anthropological research was held in Toronto, Canada. Britni will also be giving a talk on “Feminists of Color and The Fight Against Sexual Violence in Illinois” at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) at the University of Chicago in December.
Congratulations to all of our PhD students who presented work this semester!
Well wishes to all of those presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in January, 2024!
